SUSE CVE-2009-0201

Heap-based buffer overflow in OpenOffice.org OOo before 3.1.1 and StarOffice/StarSuite 7, 8, and 9 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified records in a crafted Word document, related to "table parsing."...

SUSE CVE-2009-3302

filter/ww8/ww8par2.cxx in OpenOffice.org OOo before 3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted sprmTSetBrc table property modifier in a Word document, related to a "boundary error flaw."...

SUSE CVE-2012-1535

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.3.300.271 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.238 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service application crash via crafted SWF content, as exploited in the wild in August 2012 with SWF...

Kimsuky targets South Korean entities with phishing campaign

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary As of 2010, Kimsuky has targeted the governments, think tanks, media, and education entities of the United States and South Korea. Early in 2022, a new attack cluster GoldDragon was observed targeting med...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-300-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Hackers Exploiting Follina Bug to Deploy Rozena Backdoor

A newly observed phishing campaign is leveraging the recently disclosed Follina security vulnerability to distribute a previously undocumented backdoor on Windows systems. "Rozena is a backdoor malware that is capable of injecting a remote shell connection back to the attacker's machine," Fortine...

State-Backed Hackers Exploit Microsoft 'Follina' Bug to Target Entities in Europe and U.S

A suspected state-aligned threat actor has been attributed to a new set of attacks exploiting the Microsoft Office "Follina" vulnerability to target government entities in Europe and the U.S. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint said it blocked attempts at exploiting the remote code execution flaw...

FAQ: Mitigating Microsoft Office’s ‘Follina’ zero-day

On Monday May 30, 2022, Microsoft issued CVE-2022-30190 for a zero-day remote code vulnerability, Follina, already being exploited in the wild via malicious Word documents. Q: What exactly is Follina? A: Follina is the nickname given to a new vulnerability discovered as a zero-day and identified ...

Russian threat actor UAC-0056 targets European countries

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The Governmental Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has released an alert about a Russian threat actor UAC-0056 SaintBear, UNC2589, TA471 delivering malwares using email attachments. UNC2589 is a cyber...

WIRTE Hacker Group Targets Government, Law, Financial Entities in Middle East

Government, diplomatic entities, military organizations, law firms, and financial institutions primarily located in the Middle East have been targeted as part of a stealthy malware campaign as early as 2019 by making use of malicious Microsoft Excel and Word documents. Russian cybersecurity compa...

FIN7 Capitalizes on Windows 11 Release in Latest Gambit

The FIN7 financial cybercrime gang is back, delivering JavaScript backdoors using Word documents themed around the next version of Windows. That’s according to researchers at Anomali, who observed a recent campaign from the group that leveraged six different docs, all referencing “Windows 11 Alph...

GHSA-523C-XH4G-MH5M Denial of Service in Apache POI

Apache POI in versions prior to release 3.17 are vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks: - Infinite Loops while parsing crafted WMF, EMF, MSG and macros POI bugs 61338 and 61294 - Out of Memory Exceptions while parsing crafted DOC, PPT and XLS POI bugs 52372 and 61295...

libreoffice: 'stealth mode' remote resource restrictions bypass

LibreOffice has a 'stealth mode' in which only documents from locations deemed 'trusted' are allowed to retrieve remote resources. This mode is not the default mode, but can be enabled by users who want to disable LibreOffice's ability to include remote resources within a document. A flaw existed...

IAmTheKing and the SlothfulMedia malware family

On October 1, 2020, the DHS CISA agency released information about a malware family called SlothfulMedia, which they attribute to a sophisticated threat actor. We have been tracking this set of activity through our private reporting service, and we would like to provide the community with...

Facebook WhatsApp Path Traversal Vulnerability

Facebook WhatsApp is a suite of mobile applications from Facebook Inc. in the United States that use the Internet to send text messages. The application uses the contact information in a smartphone to find contacts using the program to send texts, pictures, etc. WhatsApp Business is the commercia...

CVE-2020-1904

A path validation issue in WhatsApp for iOS prior to v2.20.61 and WhatsApp Business for iOS prior to v2.20.61 could have allowed for directory traversal overwriting files when sending specially crafted docx, xlsx, and pptx files as attachments to messages...

CVE-2020-25291

GdiDrawHoriLineIAlt in Kingsoft WPS Office before 11.2.0.9403 allows remote heap corruption via a crafted PLTE chunk in PNG data within a Word document. This is related to QBrush::setMatrix in gui/painting/qbrush.cpp in Qt 4.x...

The vulnerability of the WW8DopTypography function in the text editor oowriter of the office package OpenOffice allows a perpetrator to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service interruptions.

The vulnerability of the WW8DopTypography function in the text editor oowriter of the office suite OpenOffice relates to the creation of certain typographic information in .doc format files. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to gain access to confidential data, compromise...

The vulnerability of the OpenOffice office suite relates to the issue of operations occurring outside the buffer boundaries in memory. This allows attackers to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the OpenOffice office package is related to buffer overflow attacks. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and even cause service interruptions through unauthorized entries in the created Word...

Threat Source newsletter for April 30, 2020

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Our newest research post focuses on the Aggah campaign. Threat actors are pushing Aggah to victims via malicious Microsoft Word document...